Rotary condenser or absorber.



G. B. BASKERVILL, JR. ROTARY CONDENSER OR. ABSORBER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG, 22,1918.

Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

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Specification bf Letters Patent.

application filed August 22, 1913. Serial No. 788,200.

Patented'Sept. s, 1914.

liquid and into the space surrounded by this mass of liquid I can either introduce a gas or vapor to be condensed or absorbed by the liquid or I can draw off, by suction, air, gas or vapor from the whirling mass of liquid.

The object of my invention is to positively maintain the central gas chamber free of its encircling mass of liquid by employing centrifugal force induced by the rotating element through which the gas or vapor has free access to unite with or be drawn off from the liquid.

A further object of my invention is to provide means for unitinga gas of low pressure with a constantly changing fluid under higher pressure and without changing the pressure of the fluid. The rotor can be designed and driven at a speed calculated to maintain the flowing body of liquid at any desired pressure while it v is exposed to the gas of lower pressure; The centrifugal action of the rotor. on the fluid will produce a whirling mass of fluid under pressure surrounding the central gas space but prevented by centrifugal force from encroaching on such space.

My invention further comprises the details of construction and arrangements of parts hereinafter more particularly described and claimed by reference to the accompanying drawings which present illustrative embodiments of my invention, and in .which:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section I through a condenser or absorber provided with a centrifugal pump which delivers the fluid to the diflusion chamber where it is acted upon by the rotating diffusion elements. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on the line mw of Fig. 1. Y Fig. 3 illustrates a, simplified embodiment of my invention in whichthe pump s omitted and the fluid delivered tangentially into the diffusion chamber and in the direction of rotation of the rotating diffusion element- Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

It being evident that my invention is susceptible of a wide variation in construction without departure from the principles of operation involved, I have illustrated several simple embodiments of my invention operating as acondenser. fluid is delivered through pipe 1 into a central opening 2 in the head 3 of the circular condensing or absorbing chamber 4.. The port 2 flares gradually and I mount upon a rotating shaft 5 a rotary pump 6 which makes a close running fit in such port and has ports 7 therethrough which open in line with the entering liquid and curved radially so as to deliver the liquid in an annular whirling mass to the peripheral space 8 surrounding theinner wall of the chamber and in which it is maintained by rotating means. A shaft 5 passes through a stufling box 9 on pipe 1 and continues axially through the center of chamber 4 and through a stufling box 10 on the vapor or gas inlet pipe 11. A pulley 12 driven by'any suitable source of power is adapted to give the shaft 5 the speed of rotation desired. The gas inlet pipe 11 is flanged at 13 and bolted to a flange 14 at the discharge end of the chamber 4, an annular ring plate 15 being interposed between the flanges.

A rotor is driven by the shaft and designed to maintain the liquid in the annular space 8 as it flows with a spiral whirl to the point of discharge. ,Any rotor means for producing this effect may be used provided it affords by-openings or spaces therein for the free access of the gas to the liquid. The rotor construction illustrated comprises a series of closely associated curved vanes 16 which at, one end are flanged and bolted to the peripheral edge of the inner face of the,

pump. and which are supported at other In Fig. 1, the

points by spiders 17 mounted on the shaft 5 and held thereon between pairs of nuts 18 which are screwed onto the shaft. .The spiders, as seen in Fig. 2, permit the free interchange of air, vapor or gas between the chamber orspace surrounded by the rotat-v ing va'nes and the body of liquid driven thereby. The vanes are curved outwardly in a reverse direction to their line of rota-. tion. and are preferably disposed with their cs tmuling substauti' card in l'l' t the rotor. pcri hcry notchc" ho whicl ...th the pfill'lpl'lk he cont-or spider civc and mlcr ends sidc of ow J or firings J 1 the liquid into ujuiulur spucc 8 the no proper, though it tho liquid over- .oto pips ll. 1" back into caught up by tho rotor and I uroi' r to-liu c chumbcr 4!:

T" N o rd. silo mocha-r, t annular lion on u cl. in. tlic he incoming; and ill fwull ct tho chamber so tlllli oic fluid of tho cu 'n toward tho outlet it). The g'os to admitted tlurougli pipe 11 pusscs between thc spider and occupies thc gas chuinbci? or space at the con of tlic chamber 4-. whore it sur: rounded by the wh lug ubiitoriu body oi.

liouid which it cccss bit-tw ciii tlzc vuucs oi the rotor, hc com dci'zscr, thc steam is condcns d Where it con.-

, Water of coni, u ir ng outlet port loci, tho ziiuni" thj circulm i" tuqs ith the liquid ind dcusrtmn is curri. l. muss of W2: i191 th ou .n tho (use of an ab oi chat 1 J O ii; liquor under pressure and i with it it lacing noted that tlicrc v. Al.

15; no Iuccd tor a drop in tlic pi'cssurc oi M12) liquor if the operating cond ions tout such prcssurc lic 1nai.n '-iinod. r-uscoi? (1, means for out; 1. air, r i is created in o i l utod u simp cr cinbr'adinic y invention .ivhoi'c the fluid is (l uver-8d into tho casing 91, which is it I i i a 't-zmgcntic ly disposed iulct port 22 hii'ling mass of Water thus dclivcrcd in tho spucc b-ing immediatcly uctod upon by the rotating vanes 16 in the manner ulrcudy described it passes lcngthwiso oi the casing to ill outlet port or oris it being" immaterial whether the tuui cutiul inlet port is disposed at the: center of the casing and the flu:

scribed,

it caused to flow in opposite directions E0 outlet ports 23, or u-hcthcr it is arranged at one end of the casing; and the fluid discharged at the other end thereof, shown in l. WVhcn the fluid iulcl port is disposed inidway of the casing, tho dizunctcy; of the diffusion chamber is mainta ned substantially constant.

i W i 11; understood that other rotating centrifugal incuns can be employed provided they are ell'cctlvc to maintain. t'oc liquld out of the llll or chunibor and do not inter- ;fcrc with the free cominingling of the gas and fluid nor with the ctlcctlve Withdrawal of air, gas or vapor from the liquid by suction through pipe 11.

Without limiting myself to the speclfic construction shown 1n the drawings Wl'llGl'l :118 merely illustrative, What I claim as new and dcsirc to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.!.. in apparatus. of the character dcchamber, means to dcllver a flowing strezun of liquid tangentially to the inoutlet a rotating vane bearing t which iiorccs the flowing liquid by control cl force against the chamber Wall to :torn'1 u spucc therein surrounded by and exposed to a whirling mass of constantly changing liquid under pressure, and a pipe 1" conducting vapor or gas which opens 0 said space, substantially db described.

in an apparatus of the cllul iCtm dcacd, s stationary chamber halving liquid ct and outlet ports, rotating vanes therein wtu' u said ports which travel closc to the i wall and act on the body of liquid owing tlicrcthrough to concentrate it by centrifugal force against the inner chamber W.

it oh i I mod, a stationary cylindrical chamber having fluid inlet andoutlct ports at oppocitc ends and a inlet port disposed centmlly of cm end, and a rotor concentric with and rotatable Within said chamber and which carries scries of narrow closely spaced tunes which act on the fluid passing tlu'ouo-h the chamber to hold it by ccntrifuoul torcc againsfi thc chamber Wall, said go inlet port being arranged to deliver the gus into the center of the fluid lined chamher said fluid being adapted to seal the first mentioned ports, as and for the purposes described.

4:, in an apparatus of the character described, an. elongated cylindrical chamber having 1nlct and outlct ports for llquid h ml Wall of said chamber which.

adapted to rotate in juxtaposition to its inner wall and in contact With the liquid therein to cause it to travel spirally along the cylinder, said element extending lengthwise ot' the cylinder between said ports and being designed to permit free access of the gas to the liquid, and a gas conducting pipe which opens into the central space in the chamber surrounded by said rotating element and the body of the liquid acted on thereby, substantially as described.

5. In a means for uniting a liquid under pressure with a gas under less pressure, a

and pipe means for conducting gas having a lower pressure than the liquid which opens into such space, said centrifugal means havin presence. of two witnesses.

ing spaced openings therein which permit the gas and liquid to unite, substantially as described.

6. In an apparatus of the character described, a chamber having liquid inlet and outlet ports and adapted to contain a mass of liquid, rotating vanes to give the liquid in'said chamber a whirling motion periphery'of the chamber to form an open space therein surrounded by and exposed to the whirling mass of liquid under pressure which seals said liquid inlet and outlet ports,

and an exhaust pipe communicating with and concentrate it under pressure about the I said open space and adapted to draw ofi air, gas or vapor from the encjncllng mass of liquid, substantially .as' described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature GEORGE ,B. BASKERVI'LL, JR. \Vitnesses: I

Noann \VnLsn, Var. G. Pmonn'rr. 

